The promise of infrastructure / Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta, and Hannah Appel, editors.
Anand, Nikhil, 1975- editor.; Gupta, Akhil, 1959- editor.; Appel, Hannah, 1978- editor.
2018
HC79.C3 P78 2018eb
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Title The promise of infrastructure / Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta, and Hannah Appel, editors.
ISBN 9781478002031 (electronic book)
1478002034 (electronic book)
9781478000037
1478000031
9781478000181
147800018X
Published Durham [North Carolina] : Duke University Press, 2018.
Copyright ©2018
Language English
Description 1 online resource (vi, 256 pages).
Call Number HC79.C3 P78 2018eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 363.6
Summary From U.S.-Mexico border walls to Flint's poisoned pipes, there is a new urgency to the politics of infrastructure. Roads, electricity lines, water pipes, and oil installations promise to distribute the resources necessary for everyday life. Yet an attention to their ongoing processes also reveals how infrastructures are made with fragile and often violent relations among people, materials, and institutions. While infrastructures promise modernity and development, their breakdowns and absences reveal the underbelly of progress, liberal equality, and economic growth. This tension, between aspiration and failure, makes infrastructure a productive location for social theory. Contributing to the everyday lives of infrastructure across four continents, some of the leading anthropologists of infrastructure demonstrate in The Promise of Infrastructure how these more-than-human assemblages made over more-than-human lifetimes offer new opportunities to theorize time, politics, and promise in the contemporary moment.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Added Author Anand, Nikhil, 1975- editor.
Gupta, Akhil, 1959- editor.
Appel, Hannah, 1978- editor.
Series School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series.
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